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Reading Time: 6 minutes We look up the traffic numbers for 33 of today’s most popular sci-fi, fantasy and horror magazines. MetaStellar is in second place.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Authors Guild proposes contract clause to block AI training use without permission.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Apex Magazine launched a Kickstarter today for a new anthology of fiction about robots, called Robotic Ambitions. The anthology, to be clear, is about robots, not written by robots. It’s written by humans.

Reading Time: 2 minutes New Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine launched a crowdfunding campaign at the beginning of February and is already two-thirds of the way to its US $14,940 goal with 20 days to go.

Reading Time: 3 minutes New Canadian anthology “Through the Portal: Stories From a Hopeful Dystopia” is now accepting submissions of eco-fiction that celebrates the complexity of relationships and the emotional and physical journey from catastrophe. Submit your work by May 31.

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s been a stellar year here at the magazine, with our first anthology, a quarter million page views, a 150 YouTube videos, and more than 700 stories published by over 300 authors.

Reading Time: 9 minutes Twitter has long been a friend to speculative fiction, with many sci-fi and fantasy authors and publications connecting with their audience on the platform. However, the turmoil sparked by Elon Musk’s acquisition has caused some to have some serious concerns.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Apple’s much anticipated augmented and virtual reality headset and the new Meta headset may be way out of reach for the average user.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Science fiction writers have always been ahead of the game when it comes to predicting the future. Here are some inventions that are ready for the public now or will be soon.

Reading Time: 2 minutes The fall 2022 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories, as long as they’re 1,200 words or fewer. Please visit our flash fiction submission page for full details and the online submission form. …

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Arkady Martine won the most prestigious science fiction award last night for her novel A Desolation Called Peace, a follow-up to her novel A Memory Called Empire, which itself won a Hugo in 2020.

Reading Time: 2 minutes This past weekend, the winners of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association’s 2022 Aurora Awards were announced, honoring excellence in native Canadians and Landed Immigrants.

Reading Time: 3 minutes The 2022 Dragon Awards are coming up, and Dragon Con has just announced its finalists.

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Editor in Cheif of Wahlbeck Inc. Mark Wahlbeck recently released a Loom video to his discord community saying that he was going to pay writers $3000 for the rights to 30,000 words of science fiction.

Reading Time: < 1 minutes MetaStellar’s first anthology is out today, a collection of short stories from our first year of publication.

Reading Time: < 1 minutes NASA just released the first images from the world’s most powerful and largest space telescope, and it gives us a mind-numbing view of the cosmos.

Reading Time: 3 minutes On March 4, 2022, a rocket booster crashed into the Moon and left a unique mark: not one, but two craters.

Reading Time: 3 minutes New and emerging writers as well as some familiar names received the recognition they were due this month at the 2022 Nebula Awards awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced the 2022 Nebula Award recipients, covering science fiction and fantasy novels, novellas, short stories, and games.

Reading Time: 3 minutes In just a few years, you’ll be able to fly high above the earth’s surface in a luxurious space lounge carried by a balloon.

Reading Time: 2 minutes An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have landed on earth in a Russian spacecraft despite increasing tensions between Russia and the United States over the conflict in Ukraine.

Reading Time: 4 minutes NASA recently announced that it’s discovered 5,000 exoplanets, a milestone that’s taken 30 years to achieve. An exoplanet is a planetary body outside of our own solar system, and the search for them started in 1992 with NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program. The program is responsible for discovering and studying planetary systems around nearby suns. NASA’s used a …

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America just announced the finalists for the 2021 Nebula Awards.

Reading Time: 3 minutes An American astronaut returning to earth on a Russian spacecraft might be cause for concern as tensions heat up between Russia, the United States, and other countries opposed to the invasion of Ukraine.

Reading Time: < 1 minutes The head of Russia’s space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, made a bizarre and wildly inaccurate statement last Thursday.

Reading Time: 3 minutes One day, humans might be able to regrow body parts, regenerate tissue damaged due to disease, and even sprout missing limbs.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Can we create artificial gravity? It’s called centrifugal force and it can simulate gravity.